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Carmike Cinemas: Theaters
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In 2006, Carmike Cinemas launched a contract with Christie Digital Systems to convert all its auditoriums to Texas Instruments DLP projection technology over the course of the next few years. Some theaters have experienced a large failure rate of the projectors early on, such as split screens, overheating, and compatibility issues, due to the fact some studios still have not begun to film in digital format.
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With the help of ActiveLight’s ActiveSource division, the Carmike Cinemas theater chain implemented a digital signage network in its more than 300 theaters. Displays over the concession areas provide dynamic pricing and promote sponsored products while smaller kiosks with focused audio show trailers of coming attractions.
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During this time period, Carmike and its competitors aggressively pursued growth. This eventually caught up with the industry and by 2000, many companies found themselves with too many screens and not enough customers. An August 2000 Wall Street Journal article explained the situation, claiming, "The rise of the so-called megaplex theaters, state-of-the-art facilities that sometimes have more than 20 screens at one location, quickly made the industry's older multiplexes obsolete. But even as theater chains scramble to close those older facilities, in many areas they have built too many of the new complexes." To make matters worse for Carmike, many of its large competitors were moving into the smaller markets it once dominated. During 1998 and 1999, the company posted losses of $31 million and $22 million, respectively, due in part to costs related to expansion.
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Over the next couple of years, Carmike picked up additional screens cast off by the likes of American Multi Cinema (AMC). Its biggest single leap in size came in 1991 with the addition of 353 screens in the form of a joint venture with Excellence Theaters. Carmike bought out its partners in that project two years later. By 1992 the company was operating 1,400 movie screens, twice the number it had in its possession only three years earlier, and posting revenues of $172 million. After buying out its joint venture partners in the Eastwynn Theatres chain (formerly called Excellence) in 1993, Carmike was probably the third largest movie chain in the country, trailing only United Artists and AMC. The company ... absorbed Manos Enterprises, a chain with 80 movie screens.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of most movie theater operators continued to rise on Friday -- although Carmike Cinemas Inc. shares gave up early gains -- as an analyst forecast a stronger-than-expected box office in 2008. AP
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This matter was initiated by a complaint filed with the United States Department of Justice ("the Department") by Linda Shroyer Garton on behalf of individuals with disabilities against three theaters operated by Carmike Cinemas Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa. The complaint was investigated by the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, under the authority granted by section 308(B) of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. § 12188 et seq. The complaint alleges that the theaters failed to remove architectural barriers where such removal was readily achievable. The ADA requires owners and operators of existing places of public accommodation, such as Carmike Cinemas Inc. to remove barriers to access to the extent that it is readily achievable to do so. 42 U.S.C. §12182(b)(2)(A)(iv); 28 C.F.R.
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